More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so.
  2. America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.
  3. What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
  4. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  5. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
  6. Every generalization is false, including this one.
  7. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.
  8. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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